Weapons and equipment

A compact guide to 70 of the most iconic aircraft to have shaped warfare over the last 100 years.

A compact guide to 70 of the most iconic aircraft to have shaped warfare over the last 100 years.

A pocket guide to 60 of the most iconic British locomotives of the last two centuries, which will have wide appeal as a handy yet detailed reference book on British locomotives.

A compact but comprehensive guide to the iconic fighter planes that fought during World War II, which features full colour profile artwork throughout.

A pocket guide to 60 of the most iconic British locomotives of the last two centuries, which will have wide appeal as a handy yet detailed reference book on British locomotives.

A compact but comprehensive guide to the iconic fighter planes that fought during World War II, which features full colour profile artwork throughout.

Bursting with exciting full-colour illustrations, colour artwork and contemporary photographs, this is a handy, complete guide to the most famous military aircraft in history.

This manual collates authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship.

This manual collates authentic period sources including design notes and information for sailors to provide a unique guide to this famous warship.

Bursting with exciting full-colour illustrations, colour artwork and contemporary photographs, this is a handy, complete guide to the most famous military aircraft in history.

Firepower is an absorbing and stimulating study of methods of winning wars.

Firepower is an absorbing and stimulating study of methods of winning wars.

Did Hitler's use of unproven exotic weapons cost him the war?

The M7 Howitzer Motor Carriage, dubbed the Priest, was the most successful and widely used example of American self-propelled artillery during WWII.

This book is a collection of mostly light hearted stories about tactical Naval Aviation off aircraft carriers in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure.

In January 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million US Government contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military.

8 pages of full color illustrations depicting 14 different vehicles.

This pictorial history of the legendary American tank combines color photographs, commissioned illustrations and authoritative information.

This book offers a full examination and description of all the toxic chemical and microbiological agents, either tested, manufactured or used since 1914.

A World War II pictorial history of Nazi Germany’s armored fighting vehicles and exploration of their inner workings.

A guide that blends the history behind the German World War II tank with resources for military vehicle modeling enthusiasts.

Tony Blackman OBE, MA FRAeS was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics.

This fully illustrated modeling guide offers in-depth information on the German Panther tanks battalions that fought Russia in 1944.

An in-depth history of the small arms made by the Sterling Company of Dagenham, Essex, England, from 1940 until the company closed in 1989.

In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German people are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime photographs.

Conceived as part of a Top Secret project to disrupt Nazi Germany's atomic bomb program, the hastily developed Studebaker Weasel went on to one of, if not THE most successful of the wartime all-terrain vehicles.

The fifty-ton British Centurion tank, developed during the darkest days of the Second World War, was designed to outgun and outperform the latest German tanks, such as the formidable Panzer V Panther.

Combining the destructive firepower of the 75mm gun with the mobility of the Pzkpfw IV medium tank , the Jagdpanzer IV was quite possibly the most effective tank destroyer of the Second World War.

Hitler's Artillery 1939 – 1945 is a highly illustrated record of the firepower of the German war machine between 1939 – 1945.

How advances in weapons technology transformed the British soldier's experience of war during the nineteenth century.

A guide that blends the history behind this British World War II tank with resources for military vehicle modeling enthusiasts.

The two-handed swords found in modern museums are often so large and elaborately decorated that the onlooker might question whether such an apparently impractical weapon could ever have been a serious weapon of war.

As Anthony Tucker-Jones shows in this highly illustrated, wide-ranging history, for most of the Cold War the tank retained its pre-eminence on the battlefield.

WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARNext morning at about 6 o'clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore.

A fully illustrated and historically informative guide to building scale models of the U.

The M113 has become as much a recognizable part of the US military machine at war as the Bell UH-1 Iroquois and M16 assault rifle.

A guide that blends the history behind this German World War II tank with resources for military vehicle modeling enthusiasts.

'Captivating' Daily Telegraph'Stunning' James Holland'Superb' Daily Express'Wonderful' John Nichol'Remarkable' RAF News_________________________________Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed: the aircraft the RAF didn't think it wanted then couldn't do without.

Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.

British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure.

Land mines and their antecedents have been used on the battlefield from ancient times, through the world wars, to the modern conflicts in the developing world.

First-hand accounts from the Russian veterans of World War II who fought in the celebrated tanks that powered the Soviet armored forces.

In the fourth and final volume of Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eastern Front the defeat of the German army, the destruction and occupation of the cities in eastern Germany and the humiliation of the German people are shown in over 150 mostly unpublished wartime photographs.

A history of these versatile vehicles, with photos and useful information for modelers.

This versatile, rugged aircraft was a joint Anglo/French project and first flew in September 1968, becoming operational with both the RAF and Armèe del'Air in 1972/3.

A pictorial history of the armoured vehicles used by the Nazis during their occupation of North Africa in World War II.

A British World War I veteran details artillery's role in the Great War, life on the Western Front, and soldier morale in this classic memoir.

A British tank historian sheds new light on the UK's Cold War era research and development of cutting-edge military vehicles and anti-tank weaponry.

The Sdkfz 251 halftrack was one of the most versatile armored vehicles produced by either side in the Second World War.